Collection of non chronological one-shots expanding on the 'Five Little Monkeys' world. Cover art credit to Angie (@Dtrekker on Twitter) Rated T for minor language and sexual situations.

A sequel to A Night to Forget

Timer: Counting Down To Your Soulmate; Castle mashup with the movie of the same name. Caskett.

Takes place after the shootout in Castle's apartment and before the happy ending. A new character comes in to investigate the shooting at the request of Deputy Chief Gates. Can she be trusted?

Post 8x22. When Kate and Rick are shot in their own home, it's only the beginning of a journey that changes everything, not just for them, but for their friends and loved ones. New paths open up, while the bonds of love and friendship only grow stronger. The future is everyone's to decide.

While following a lead in a gruesome homicide case, Captain Kate Beckett disappears and is eventually presumed dead. Six years later she's found, barely alive, in a cabin in the woods, only to return to a world she no longer recognizes. An Absentia-inspired Castle fic.

Beckett returns to the precinct to find that things have changed more than expected. Set early in Season 4.

What would you do if you had the power to save someone's life and give them the closure that they are so desperately seeking? Would you do it? Richard Rodgers was a committed and honorable soldier. With his beliefs, there were no gray areas only black or white. On one disastrous day that had all changed and he was now doubting his purpose in life. Until he met one Kate Beckett...

Post 8x07 'The Last Seduction.' The story will start in canon for that episode, but will move into AU territory after Kate receives the mysterious text from Vikram. Kate vanishes the morning after she and Castle celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Where has she gone and why? I want to thank Angie (at dtrekker) for the fantastic cover art. Contains spoilers for Season 8.

In which Castle recovers from the bullets to his chest, shows up at the Twelfth, and begins to slowly but surely weasel his way into Captain Beckett's life…and her heart. A reimagining of the series in which Castle & Beckett first meet in the 7x06 (Time of Our Lives) AU storyline. Entry for the Castle Ficathon Winter 2017. Complete.

A collection of unrelated oneshots inspired by prompts received on tumblr.

Photographer Kate Beckett and aspiring novelist Rick Rodgers are perfectly content in their solitary lives. But it's only after an unlikely matchmaker conspires to have them meet that they realize how extraordinary their lives could become. A Castle AU for Summer Ficathon 2016 co-written by airbefore and caffinate-me.

3 word prompt - kate drunk london — ANONYMOUS

This is Castle future history that takes place after Life Goes On and Distress from the Dungeons, in the same universe. If you haven't read Life Goes On, you've missed the 7 years that precedes this. They have the kids and the life shown in the final seconds of Castle S8. Of course I own nothing Castle.

"What may be broken to you is beautiful to me." 4x01 AU: Sometimes you don't have to runaway to find what was meant to be… *2016 Summer Ficathon*

"She can't stop thinking about it. About him. The feel of his lips pressed against hers as his hands tangled in her hair. The feeling of him pressed against her, taking every ounce of her strength not to roll her hips into his." Season 3 AU where Castle and Beckett get together before she's shot and they spend the summer together at the cabin. Summer Ficathon 2016.

Forgiveness isn't something you are only granted by others. Forgiveness is something that you also have to grant to yourself. An AU starting about six months earlier than canon did, and in part a Christmas story. Please see warning in Ch1. COMPLETE.

Rick Rodgers is a struggling writer. He is working on his first novel. Trying to balance working and writing his days are pretty full. That is until his daughter comes along. In a second everything changes for worse. He needs to set his priorities straight. Can he survive? Read along and find out! Pre-series/pre-Caskett. Rated T to start, will be changed to M in later chapters.

Rick and Kate have deep feelings for each other. They both know it. She thinks about the pain he will cause if she drops her walls, so she sets out to teach him a lesson the only way she knows how. That is until the team catches a murder that will hit both of them hard. Can they come together to solve it and realize they need each other? Season 2 A/U story. Prompt from TORONTOSUN.

Kate Beckett never expected to find herself nineteen, pregnant, and motherless, but that was the hand life dealt her and she was dealing with it the best she could. She had finally decided to give her baby up for adoption when the baby's father showed up and complicated things. Richard Castle had a tendency to do that. (Caskett AU)

"The baby is already kicking, awoken by her stillness after having let her sleep through the night, and it intensifies everything, the reminder of how far they've come, that life grows within her even though she almost lost her own less than two years ago." Castle brings the Christmas season to Beckett while she's on bed rest. A Pulse Sequel.

"It doesn't matter, though, does it? The fact is I'm no closer to figuring out who's hurting Castle or why he's allowing it." Beckett notices some disturbing changes in her partner after her return to the 12th. An AU set early in Season 4 after Rise.

This new series involving a woman from the district attorney's office is a witness to a shooting. She calls 911 only to decide to run away from the scene. Though having to heard the shooter's voice and not the face. Ten chapters for the entire series.

Set in season 4 around episodes 8 -10. All at once Castle and Beckett find themselves face to face with what were once skeletons hidden in closets. An AU take on Castle's backstory.

A collection of short, mostly unrelated pieces written on tumblr as prompt responses. Some may contain mild Season 8 spoilers.

Beckett's all alone in Manhattan, and Castle's in the Hamptons with Gina. Now what? All hell's about to break loose, that's what. Set in the summer between S2 and S3. Complete.

AU post-3x15 "The Final Nail." Takes place after Kate goes for a drink with Castle before her dinner with Josh on Valentine's Day.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. Castle and Beckett have their first date. Set early season four. Might need to read the first two in this series.

A Ghost Love Story. "He knew something was different the moment he stepped into the brownstone." Extremely AU. Caskett set in 1890. CastleHalloweenBash 2014 Entry. Now Complete.

"She isn't here, Mr. Castle. Don't you want to protect her? Isn't that what all of this is about?" AU from "Always"

"Is there anything we can do?" "Nothing. There's nothing we can do." But not everything is as it seems. Join Kate and Rick Castle as day by day, they build a life together.

Set early S4. Kate survives the bullet but their partnership doesn't. Almost everybody agrees that it's too dangerous for Rick to keep shadowing her, so she kicks him out for his own good. The only problem is that Kate can't seem to go cold turkey.

After the close of an exciting case, Castle has writer's block. He shouldn't; all kinds of weird stuff happened on the case. Somehow he ends up looking through Beckett's computer for inspiration... and happens across a little website called fanfiction.